1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Each interpreted the other’s words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding.

Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

A man able to think isn’t defeated – even when he is defeated.

If every life is unique, let’s live uniquely. Let’s reject everything that is not fresh and new. It is necessary to be absolutely modern.

Mankind’s real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy; the Animals.

Not until later did she understand that the word “woman” on which he had placed such uncommon emphasis, did not, in his eyes, signify one of the two human sexes; it represented a value. Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.

Isn’t beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

There is no perfection only life.